Wichita eagle., 1887-11-05
ALL OVER TIE STATE.

Duck shooting on the Nlnnescah river
is very fine this year.
Only one third of the soil of Kansas
has yet been improved IN farms.
There is not town in Kansas of over
1900 people without electric lights.
There are $4,000 Swedes in Kansas.
They are among the best citizens of the
state.
Halstead is making effort to organize a
a company to establish canning fac
tory.
The New Moon literary society is an
organization formed by the ladies of Gar
den City.
The old settlers association of Craw-
ford county met in regular session In
Girard. October y.
On the fifteenth of the present month
we are informed. the electric light and
street gas will go on duty III Arkansas
City.
The fiax-tow mills at Colts. kas. has
been q great success. and mills next year
will be started in several parts OF the
state
A farmer in Osborne county has, as a
matter Of experiment, succeeded III rais-
ing potatoes with all the tubecs above
ground.
The Salina Herald states that colIec-
tons among the farmers Of Saline county
are very easy considering the short crop
Of this year.
Five Englismen have been arrested in
Paris. France. charged with forging
securities of the Southern railroad COM
pany of Kansas.
4 floating item says that a Nenaha
oats that gave an average yield Of 100
bushels to the acre.
A sharper. by practicing the art of the
fOrCer. got away with S12. 900 OF a Fort
Scott banks cash An official scenter
has been put on his trail
The average cost of maintaining one
man for last year at the Soldiers Home |
at Leavenworth was &164. This includes |
food, lodging and clothing.
Tie CLAY Center coal ard gas prospect
inc company has been organized with a !
capital stock OF $40, 900 for the purpose of !
sinking a well at that place 1000 feet.
Tie Cedarvale Star SAYS that it cannot /
be mentioned too often that Kansas, (
Chautauqua county, cotton was awarded .
first premium at the New Orleans exposi- !
ion.
The Topeka Journal says: The young
ladies' of Abilene have formed an anti
slang society They will cultivate the
English language as against the English
aanguage.
". H. Ballard. an attorney at law, of
dropped dead n front Of j.
F. Dewitt's residence, on avenue A,
today. about one o'clock, as IL was going
70 his dinner. The cause Of death is yet
unknown.
There are 1900 insane people in Kan
,as. and the Emporia Republican says
his does not include those Democratic
editots who imagine Republicans are &C.
me- to be guided by their advice to vote !
he Democratic ticket.
a large amount of wheat Is being mar
1eted at Great Bend every day. 1t
doesn't indicate a failure Of this cereal
o see Che long rows Of wagons as they
vend their way through town loaded to
he guards with good quality OF grain.
The Waterville telegraph mentions a
arm OF go acres on high prairie near
hat city which produced in this dry
-ear g 80 bushels of wheat on 1J6 acres.
AZ bushels of oats on u acres. The 17J
tcres Of corn yield at least 10 bushels per
lcre.
Topeka proposes to develop her water
)Ower by securing $500. 900 from the city,
bonding for 100000. the proposed dam
nd the rights and franchises they pro-
pose to secure. in connection with il. and
pending the entire 100000 in improve
nents.
/ German farmer living near anthony
N place he rented this spring saws that
he money he VIII get out OF the hay on
rs sixty acres Of meadow will more than
'av the rent Of the place this year, with
ut having TO use any of the money from
Us corn. potato and other crops.
An official Of the state penitentiarv at
states that ont Of the $50
now confined. fully $50 have :
efore served sentences in different penal
Institutions. When possible. they always
sep the knowledge of having previously
erved sentences from the prison officials
Two boys were recently arrested for
ring a Flobert rife in the city limits. IN
heir defense it was pleaded as there Is no
used in the IIobert rifle il /
ouid not be firearm within The meaning
t the law. The learned lawyers Of To-
eka are now racking their brains and
be cyclopedias to decide The matter.
Three Japenese army officials paid
d visit last week. They
-eTe sent To this county TO witness tire
International encampmert ct Chicago. /
nd to visit the different military posts.
hey made an extended examination of
ort Leaveuworth. They were called
pon b. the mayor and interviewed by
lie newspapers.
The Short Creek Republican SAYS: g
). II. Lucas. Of Cherokee, pu1 nine two
ear old and l2j small carp in his pond
81 spring, and few days ago he seined
le pond for the purpose Of Riding it Il
.ttish. He took on, number Of small
.tfish and over 80 carp. The small
les he put in last spring weighed fro:a
le and half 10 two and :. half pounds
be older ones have dalbied IN size
very experiment shows carp raising
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